Really Really Weird remix contest winners revealed!
Four months ago, I announced a remix contest for my song Really Really Weird. The original multitracks were put online, and I encouraged remixers to mangle things to their heart’s content.
The entry ranked the highest by a panel of seven judges and myself would win the grand prize — one of the keyboards I used on the song, a circuit-bent Casio SK-1. Three runner-ups would win a Girls Aliens Food CD and a Girls Aliens Food t-shirt.
Well, something kind of funny happened along the way. Y’see, there were a lot of interesting remixes, and there was at least one thing I liked about each remix. So everybody who submitted a remix — but who didn’t end up in the top four slots — was given a free digital download of the Girls Aliens Food album.
Thanks to the judges (Mathieu Bournazel, Rob Gibson, Pea Hix, Missy Kulik & Raoul De La Cruz, Mike Langlie, and Matt Williams) and to everyone who sent in their mixes. It was fun to hear new interpretations of a song that I was very familiar with; hope everyone else had fun too.
So without further ado — the remixes!
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And everyone else… (Don’t let the fact they don’t have a contest ranking next to their name throw you — there’s some good stuff in here!)
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Note to podcasters: All of these tracks are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, which means you’re free to use them in your podcast as long as you give proper credit.
Tags: Really Really Weird, remix contest, The Simple Carnival
December 11th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Congrats to the winner Drummer man! and for the runner’s up!! I seriously think this contest was really run well all around and the updates and the constant updating of this site and/or the simplecarnival.com site made it worth it to participate even if I didn’t win. And then to find out I get some free tunes from simplecarnival out it anywaz wow. I just wanted to show my appreciate of how well I thought the contest was done and laid out and all around good job. I am pleased to be involved with this remix contest! Good luck to everyone in the future!! Merry Christmas ya’ll….from DJ Salty Flavor
http://www.djsaltyflavor.com
http://www.myspace.com/djsaltyflavor
December 12th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Hail to the Winners and runners-up! Truely deserved and very inspiring stuff! Allthough my entry came in late and hence i wasnt eligible i truely enjoyed the contest. And I might not have gotten a T-shirt…I got to download those free tunes anyhow! Great Stuff!
Jeff, thanks again and everybody have a really really weird X-Mas
Yves / All There Is
http://www.myspace.com/allthereis2008
December 12th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Hello to all and congrats to Drummer man.
I had a lot of fun working on this Remix,
Thanks to everybody who made it a fun contest.
Amit.K -a.k.a- SensitivBoy
December 12th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Congratulations DrummerMan! This was a seriously hard contest to judge, there were lots of innovative and creative entries. I didn’t once get sick of hearing Jeff’s song so many times in a row.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
LOL Mike!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Well done everybody!! What a cracking load of remixes!!
December 12th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
congrats to the winners! it was fun to take part in this. there are some excellent inventive remixes here some of which now reside in my itunes folder! it was a nice surprise to get a free download of girls aliens food too. very much enjoyed listening to it
all the very best to everybody, lawrence aka boc scadet
December 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Thanks, Jeff, for making such a fun remix!
I will try to continue being worthy of this sweet-ass prize.
You all rock.
Geoff
December 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I meant “remix contest”, but you all probably figured that out.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Congrats to the DrummerMan for winning and well done to every one. It was a lot of fun, which I think can be seen in the number of great mixes here. Special shout out to sensitiveboy for my favourite tune.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Thanx to Rewind for the kind words,
Dig your dubby style…